Police brutality and harsh tactics at OWS. Mass Actions. Occupy Wall Street Goes Home. On December 6th Occupy Wall Street will join in solidarity with a Brooklyn community to re-occupy a foreclosed home.
The day of action marks a national kick-off for a new frontier for the occupy movement: the liberation of vacant bank-owned homes for those in need. The banks got bailed out, but our families are getting kicked out. The fight to reclaim democracy from the banks is growing from Wall Street to Main Street. The NYC foreclosure tour and home re-occupation is part of a big national day of action on Dec. 6 that will focus on the foreclosure crisis and protest fraudulent lending practices, corrupt securitization, and illegal evictions by banks. The Occupy movement actions, including eviction defense at foreclosed properties, takeovers of vacant properties by homeless families, and foreclosure action disruptions, will take place in more than 25 cities across the country. No more! We are the 99%. Facebook Event Page Occupy Our Homes from Housing is a Human Right: Occupy LSX: St Paul's protesters served with enforcement notices.
An Occupy London protest banner outside St Paul's Cathedral.
Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP Enforcement notices have been served on the Occupy camp outside St Paul's Cathedral in the latest attempt to remove hundreds of tents that have been pitched in the heart of London's financial district since mid-October. The notices, which were served during Wednesday's strike, took camp members by surprise, as many were out protesting cuts to public sector pensions. « Occupy DC » - Intership at the Women Ambassadors Foundation. Jeudi 1 décembre 4 01 /12 /Déc 23:17 Le mouvement des « occupy » Wall Street a envahi la capitale américaine et a attiré les gens d’autres grandes villes américaines, ainsi que du Monde entier.
Les manifestants militent contre la guerre, la politique d’immigration, le chômage élevé, les inégalités de revenus, le lobbying des entreprises et de nombreux autres maux qui touchent notre société. Après avoir questionné quelques manifestants à Washington, les deux principaux centres d’intérêts émergent qui sont le coût élevé de l’éducation et la crise du logement. The movement of "occupy" Wall Street has invaded the U.S. capital and has attracted people from other major U.S. cities and the whole world. Protesters campaigning against the war, immigration policy, high unemployment, income inequality, lobbying firms and many other ills that affect our society. After questioning a few protesters in Washington, the two main interests are emerging the high cost of education and housing crisis. Fear of Flying. Audio version read by George Atherton – Right-click to download Lefty arguments are fraught with asterisks, exceptions, caveats, considerations, footnotes, excuses and pie-in-the-sky moral posturing coded in a lexicon that most people don’t even get.
The right meanwhile is able to stand behind simplistic, strong and wrong optimism, cloaking itself with the grace of God and good intentions. Philip Glass. UnMH9.jpg (Image JPEG, 398x308 pixels) The Regency « zunguzungu. Most of the Regents of the University of California — whose very name gives you a good idea of the kind of power they wield over the direction and functioning of the University of California – are unelected, appointed to 12 year terms by the governor of California, and almost without exception, they have no real background or apparent interest in education.
They are corporate moguls, the 1%, whatever you want to call them. On Monday, they defied California’s open meeting laws by sort-of teleconferencing from four different campuses, voting to raise various administrative salaries by about $3.5 million, including the UC Davis chief campus counsel. Perhaps they suspected he would be busy in the near future? But as many are pointing out, at a time of across-the-board-cutbacks in the work of teaching and being a university, to find raising executive salaries to be “essential” — as UC president Mark Yudof put it, “We consider these retention efforts to be essential. Occupy Comix Vol. 1 Issue 1. Information We are asking for donations for the printing and publishing of 2000 copies of "Occupy Comix Vol. 1 Stories of the 99%".
Occupy Comix will be used as an outreach tool to reach a wider audience ( youth of color, working class people of the outer Burroughs) who have yet to be attracted to the Occupy Wall Street Movement. Check here for a preview of some Occupy Stories: www.occupycomix.wordpress.com Here is the awesome team behind this project: Lenina Nadal, poet, filmmaker, writer and communications worker for social justice Terry Marshall- lead practiioner of Young Voices Nation and strategic media consultant John Kim- illustrator and social justice artist Karen Oh- lead designer Edgardo Miranda- masthead designer Donations are no longer being accepted. Donor List 22 donors. Opération leakspin. Occupy Philly forces regroup to await release of those arrested.
The arrests followed a police raid on Occupy's encampment on Dilworth Plaza.
Mayor Nutter had ordered the protesters to vacate the plaza by 5 p.m. Sunday, but the deadline came and went with no police action.